Key Takeaways Fantom is an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 chain with over $8 billion locked in its DeFi protocols. It hosts a thriving DeFi ecosystem, including...

2021 was undoubtedly a revolutionary one for cryptocurrencies, especially due to the mainstream emergence of decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFT). However, good times don’t last forever. And, many are fearful that this year might not be as lucrative for investors now that signs of a slowdown are evident. Price no bound Ethereum‘s utility […]

DIA is the first oracle provider to integrate its oracle infrastructure with the Astar Network, running on the Polkadot Relaychain. The oracle deployment will facilitate DeFi applications on Astar to easily connect to the outside world data. The open-source data provider DIA announced today the integration of its decentralized oracle infrastructure with the Astar Network,…

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Key Takeaways Derivative markets are indicative of how mature financial systems are. The DeFi derivatives space is in its infancy and lags in development relative...

A highly popular pseudonymous Cardano ($ADA) whale says that in 2022 he expects the L1 blockchain’s transaction throughput to increase to 500-1000. According to a report published by CoinDesk earlier today, “ADA Whale” (“cardano_whale” on Twitter) told them via a Twitter chat: “Keep eyes on the various scaling initiatives coming to Cardano the next months… […]

Curve gave Layer 2s a boost by joining Optimism.

The cryptocurrency market continues to have a disappointing January. At $$2.07 trillion, its total cap has dropped by around 1.7% in the past 24 hours. [...]

Block’s Cash app officially integrated Lightning Network for bitcoin transactions and will be available to customers in the US in the next few weeks as we are reading more today in our latest Bitcoin news. Block’s Cash App is a mobile payments app by Jack Dorsey and now it will integrate the Lightning Network as […]

Ethereum’s most popular layer 2 network Polygon has successfully implemented EIP-1559 as of block #23850000. Learning from the best EIP-1559 was first activated as part of the London hard fork on Ethereum in August 2021. The improvement proposal introduced a change in the network’s gas mechanisms, switching from a price auction mechanism to a more […]

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The TVL of Ethereum Layer 2 projects increased 600% from Q3 to Q4 of 2021, surpassing a peak of $7.17 billion on Nov 25th, 2021.

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Technologies that were state of the art 50 years ago will be usurped by Bitcoin as the superior technology makes itself apparent.

Ethereum (ETH) is the biggest blockchain in the world. However, it faces massive scaling…

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